Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion

8:30 pm

Mr. Gerry Brady:

It is the United Nations which sets the methodology for the inventory emissions that are compiled by the EPA. We get those data from the EPA and disaggregate them by NACE sector. The inventory methodology is based on the territorial principle, so the country where the emissions are happening. The oil comes from Saudi Arabia but it is driven in a car in Ireland so the emissions-----